.asia Landrush Begins"Those of you who did not acquire your trademark names and keywords can now join the masses and pick up your domains."

Feb 21, 2008

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36 People Arrested In Alibaba Fraud CaseChinese police have arrested 36 people in connection with operating fraud on Alibaba.com that prompted the resignations of the firm's top executives in February, the company said.

July 1, 2011

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AliBaba Payment Processing in China" Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba is launching an online payment service it hopes will become the preferred way to buy things online in the world's second-biggest Internet market by users."

Alibaba Looks For Buyers Of Yahoo-Owned Stake"China's Alibaba Group is seeking investors to buy the 39 percent stake in the Internet company held by Yahoo Inc, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday, outlining a plan that could stop Microsoft Corp from getting the Alibaba stock."

Alibaba aquires Yahoo China"China's largest e-commerce website Alibaba on Tuesday announced it had successfully acquired the entire assets of Yahoo! China and gained one billion US dollars of investment in the merger."

Australia Opens Pandora Archive"The National Library of Australia has been spidering sites that have consented to have their content archived in a local version of the Wayback Machine. The requirement for Australia-relevant content is important."

Baidu Deletes Almost 2.8 Million Files Of Online Works Over CopyrightChinese search engine Baidu has deleted 2.8m works from its online library, Baidu Wenku, in an attempt to settle a copyright dispute with writers.[br][br]"By Tuesday afternoon we had removed almost 2.8 million files, mainly from the Literary Works section of the site, which was the primary concern of the writers and publishers,"

Baidu In Partnership With Microsoft to Get English Search Results From BingFinally it's official. Both Baidu and Microsoft China have confirmed it: Baidu's partnership with Microsoft's Bing for English-language searches on Baidu.com is a done deal, after several months of rumors.[br][br]With this partnership Baidu Search will show English search results based on Bing's algorithms. It gives Baidu better quality search results, whilst also raising the profile of Bing in China.

Baidu Profit Up 80 Percent, Forecasts More GrowthBaidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, said Friday its latest quarterly profit jumped 80 percent as strong growth in usage of its site helped to drive advertising revenue higher.

Baidu Reaches Out In English To Help Grow Its Market ShareChinese search engine giant Baidu has launched an English-language blog on the country's online culture, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, as the firm looks to expand into overseas markets.[br][br]Baidu Beat intends to introduce and explain to foreign users the hot topics and trends on China's Internet, which is now used by more than 450 million people, spokesman Kaiser Kuo told AFP.[br][br]'It's really out of a desire to give people who are interested in China but who don't necessarily read Chinese or don't read fluently in Chinese an opportunity to understand what Chinese Internet users are doing,' he said.

Baidu Says Profits Up 400 Percent"Chinese Web search leader Baidu said on Wednesday quarterly net profits quintupled, but stepped up investments and the impact of a late New Year's holiday season will cut sales growth early in 2007."

Baidu plans R&D centers in Shanghai, Tokyo"China's top Web search firm Baidu.com Inc plans to launch a research and development centre in Shanghai as early as this year, an industry source said on Wednesday, as it seeks to fend off rival Google in the world's second-largest Web market."

Baidu.com Gets Ready for IPO"According to published reports in China, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was in Beijing last week meeting with Baidu officials. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google has a 4% stake in the company, and it is unclear whether Schmidt's visit was connected to that investment or other business."

July 5, 2005

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Best solution for PPC in Asia?"I run a site which has a strong potential revenue stream from South-East Asia, and I'd like to market my site to particularly Korea, Japan, and China."